Rail-joint.



, "PATENTED APR. 30, 1907. 1010mm. RAIL JOINT.

APPLIOATION FILED 8312119, 19%

VINTON C. YOUNG, OF VERONA, MISSOURI.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 30, 1907.

Application filed September 19, 1906. Serial 33 3 T (Lil whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VINTON C. YOUNG, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Verona, in the county of Lawrence and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification. .5? This invention relates to rail joints and one of the principal objects of the same is to provide strong, reliableand eilicient means for firmly holding the meeting ends of railway rails together and to prevent creeping or spreading of the rails.

Another object of the invention is to provide a stay bar or brace between the ties at the joint of the rails.

These and other objects are attained by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rail joint made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 22, Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing for a more particular description of my invention, the numeral 1 designates one of the rails and 2 is the other rail. Secured at opposite sides of the rails are the fish plates or splice bars 3, said plates having side flanges 4 fitting up against the web 5 of the rails and an inclined flange 6 which extends over the base flanges 7 of the rails. Stay bars 8 each provided with a horizontal flange 9 secured by spikes 10 to the ties 11, are provided with downwardly extending flanges 12 between the ties 11, said flanges 12 being bolted together by bolts 13 and the ends of said stay bars bearing against the side edges of the ties 11 to prevent the rails from creeping or spreading. The splice bars or fish plates 3 are secured by bolts 14 to the horizontal portion 9 of the stay bars and through bolts 15 pass through the fish plates and through slots in the webs of the rails to admit of the slight contraction and expansion of the rails.

In joining the rails the fish plates and the stay bars are secured in place between the tics and the rails are then passed between the fish plates and connected thereto by means of the bolts 15.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that a rail joint made in accordance with my invention will firmly hold the rails against creeping or spreading; that the cost of installation is comparatively slight; that repairs can be easily effected and that the expense of manufacture is slight as compared to many devices in use for joining the ends of rails.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

A rail joint comprising splice bars having vertical flanges secured to the webs of the rails, flanges for covering the base flanges of the rails, stay bars for supporting the rails, said splice bars being bolted to the stay bars and vertical flanges on the stay bars eXtending between the tics and bolted together, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VINTON O. YOUNG.

Witnesses J. M. MILLER, J. W. HILLHousE. 

